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Overview

Amy M. Wetherby is affiliated with Florida State University in the United States. Their research primarily centers on psychology and neuroscience, with a strong focus on clinical psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Additional areas of study include education, psychiatry and mental health, and developmental and educational psychology.

The main topics covered in Wetherby's work include family and disability support research, autism spectrum disorder research, child development and digital technology, child nutrition and feeding issues, infant development and preterm care, virology and viral diseases, as well as language development and disorders.

Wetherby has contributed to several recent publications. These include:

  • Practice guideline: Treatment for insomnia and disrupted sleep behavior in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder, 2020, published in Neurology
  • The earlier the better: An RCT of treatment timing effects for toddlers on the autism spectrum, 2023, published in Autism
  • Rethinking autism spectrum disorder assessment for children during COVID-19 and beyond, 2021, published in Autism Research
  • Early social communication development in infants with autism spectrum disorder, 2021, published in Child Development
  • The Early Screening for Autism and Communication Disorders: Field-testing an autism-specific screening tool for children 12 to 36 months of age, 2021, published in Autism

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Abigail Delehanty (11 joint publications)
  • Jessica L. Hooker (8 joint publications)
  • Audrey Thurm (4 joint publications)
  • Juliann Woods (4 joint publications)
  • Taylor N. Day (4 joint publications)

Wetherby's research has appeared predominantly in the following publication venues:

  • Autism (4 publications)
  • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology (3 publications)
  • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (3 publications)
  • Neurology (1 publication)
  • Autism Research (1 publication)

Best Publications

  • Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Interventions: Empirically Validated Treatments for Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Laura Schreibman;Geraldine Dawson;Aubyn C. Stahmer;Rebecca Landa

  • Early Intervention for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder Under 3 Years of Age: Recommendations for Practice and Research

    Lonnie Zwaigenbaum;Margaret L. Bauman;Roula Choueiri;Connie Kasari

  • Early indicators of autism spectrum disorders in the second year of life.

    Amy M. Wetherby;Juliann Woods;Lori Allen;Julie Cleary

  • Profiles of Communicative and Cognitive-Social Abilities in Autistic Children

    Amy Miller Wetherby;Carol A. Prutting

  • Early Identification of Autism Spectrum Disorder: Recommendations for Practice and Research.

    Lonnie Zwaigenbaum;Margaret L. Bauman;Wendy L. Stone;Nurit Yirmiya

  • Social communication profiles of children with autism spectrum disorders late in the second year of life

    Amy M. Wetherby;Nola Watt;Nola Watt;Lindee Morgan;Stacy Shumway;Stacy Shumway

  • Parent-Implemented Social Intervention for Toddlers With Autism: An RCT

    Amy M. Wetherby;Whitney Guthrie;Juliann Woods;Christopher Schatschneider

  • Defining spoken language benchmarks and selecting measures of expressive language development for young children with autism spectrum disorders.

    Helen Tager-Flusberg;Sally Rogers;Judith Cooper;Rebecca Landa

  • Early diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder: stability and change in clinical diagnosis and symptom presentation

    Whitney Guthrie;Lauren B. Swineford;Charly Nottke;Amy M. Wetherby

  • The SCERTS® Model: A Comprehensive Educational Approach for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

    Barry M. Prizant;Amy M. Wetherby;Emily Rubin;Amy C. Laurent

  • Validation of the Infant—Toddler Checklist as a broadband screener for autism spectrum disorders from 9 to 24 months of age

    Amy M. Wetherby;Susan Brosnan-Maddox;Vickie Peace;Laura Newton

  • Early Screening of Autism Spectrum Disorder: Recommendations for Practice and Research

    Lonnie Zwaigenbaum;Margaret L. Bauman;Deborah Fein;Karen Pierce

  • The SCERTS Model: A Transactional, Family-Centered Approach to Enhancing Communication and Socioemotional Abilities of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

    Barry M. Prizant;Amy M. Wetherby;Emily Rubin;Amy C. Laurent

  • Autism spectrum disorders : a transactional developmental perspective

    Amy M. Wetherby;Barry M. Prizant

  • Analysis of Intentional Communication of Normal Children from the Prelinguistic to the Multiword Stage

    Amy M. Wetherby;Debra H. Cain;Dianne G. Yonclas;Virginia G. Walker

  • Communicative, Social/Affective, and Symbolic Profiles of Young Children With Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders

    Amy M. Wetherby;Barry M. Prizant;Thomas A. Hutchinson

  • Validity and reliability of the communication and symbolic behavior scales developmental profile with very young children.

    Amy M. Wetherby;Lori Allen;Julie Cleary;Kary Kublin

  • Caregiver-Mediated Intervention for Low-Resourced Preschoolers With Autism: An RCT

    Connie Kasari;Kathy Lawton;Wendy Shih;Tyson V. Barker

  • Communicative Acts of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders in the Second Year of Life

    Stacy Shumway;Amy M. Wetherby

  • The Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule, Toddler Module: Standardized Severity Scores

    Amy N. Esler;Vanessa Hus Bal;Vanessa Hus Bal;Whitney Guthrie;Amy Wetherby

  • Communication and Symbolic Behavior Scales: Developmental Profile,, 1st normed ed.

    Amy M. Wetherby;Barry M. Prizant

  • Ontogeny of communicative functions in autism.

    Amy Miller Wetherby

Frequent Co-Authors

Catherine Lord
Catherine Lord University of California, Los Angeles
Christopher Schatschneider
Christopher Schatschneider Florida State University
Alice S. Carter
Alice S. Carter University of Massachusetts Boston
Wendy L. Stone
Wendy L. Stone University of Washington
Sally J. Rogers
Sally J. Rogers University of California, Davis
Rebecca Landa
Rebecca Landa Kennedy Krieger Institute
Lonnie Zwaigenbaum
Lonnie Zwaigenbaum University of Alberta
Connie Kasari
Connie Kasari University of California, Los Angeles
Diana L. Robins
Diana L. Robins Drexel University
Robin L Hansen
Robin L Hansen University of California, Davis

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